In October of the current year, Italy’s industrial production sales prices decreased by 0.3 percent compared to September and rose by 2.3 percent year on year, according to Istat, Italy's national statistics office.
In October, the prices of Italian industrial products sold in the local market were down 0.3 percent month on month and up 2.6 percent year on year, while the price index for Italian industrial products sold in foreign markets fell 0.1 percent compared to September (-0.1 percent in the euro area and -0.2 percent outside the euro area) and rose by 0.9 percent year on year (+0.7 percent in the euro area and +1.2 percent outside the euro area).
In the first 10 months of the current year, all sales price indexes rose year on year, for domestic sales (+2.6 percent), euro area sales (+1.1 percent) and also for non-euro area sales (+2 percent).
As regards sales price indexes for Italy’s metals and metal product production (excluding plants and machinery) in October, Istat posted month-on-month decreases of 0.2 percent for local sales, of 0.1 percent for products sold in the euro zone and of 0.3 percent for sales outside the euro zone. The year-on-year price variations were negative for metal products sales in all markets, respectively down 1.7 percent in the Italian market, down 3.3 percent in the euro zone and decreasing by 1.7 percent outside the euro area.